Forum des Musikinstrumenten-Museums Markneukirchen

Thank you Udo for such an extesive and detailed reply! I am a guitar player and music educator with limited knowledge in violin making, but still with a great love for these instruments and the history they come with. I do play violin on a hobby basis. First I would like to reflect on the great diff...

Hello forum users. Sorry for not speaking german, I hope this is ok. I have recently aquired a violin labeled "C. W. Seidel 1836" hand written with a goose quill and ink, and I wonder if this could actually be genuin. Acording to the label Christian Wilhelm Seidel would have been 21 years old at the...